How To Evaluate A Wreck Diving Course by Andy Davis In this article, I will be looking at what differentiates basic wreck diving courses – the good, the bad and the ugly. In particular, I want to examine specific wreck penetration issues, so that the reader may find some guidance in their selection of a […]

Core Overhead Environment Diving Skills A collection of video tutorials from the web – depicting key skills for overhead environment diving in wrecks and caves. For information only. Please get properly trained before attempting to enter shipwrecks! I will update this blog entry with more videos and features as I find them… if you have […]

PADI Wreck Diving Course Philippines Subic Bay, November 2012 Congratulations to Jim Cain for completing his PADI Wreck Diving Course in Subic Bay. The course was run over 2 days and included 4 dives, including the USS New York ACR-2, the USS Majaba (El Capitan), a Landing Craft Tank Mk6 and sunken US Navy docking […]

Relocating a Lost Guideline – Skills for Wreck Divers Technical Diving knowledge share by Andy Davis This article, by Jim Wyatt, was originally published in Underwater Spelology. I have reproduced the article here, as the issue of relocating a lost guideline also demands the attention of wreck divers at all levels. In the event of a […]

Line Laying for Wreck Diving Penetrations – Video Tutorials Wreck diving courses include line laying practice for wreck diving penetration, however many wreck instructors have minimal personal experience in the finer points of guideline deployment and use. Proper guideline techniques were refined and perfected in the discipline of cave diving exploration. Those techniques were adopted […]

Silt Out – Wreck Danger! This video, filmed by myself in Subic Bay, graphically shows the danger of silt out to wreck divers conducting penetration dives. What looks like a nice safe and benign compartment, with plenty of light and an obvious exit (well within recreational wreck diving limits) turns into a potential death […]